Ontological Anarchism
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Eliminative Culinarism
In continuation of the lecture series on universalism after Peirce and Kant and a modern conception of speculative thought, this Thursday and Saturday via video-conference: This is an announcement for the opening of Yves Mettler's installation Drilling Rig from Arnex, 1929 originally made for the festival Les Urbaines and now moved to the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts where it has been meticulously deconstructed by the artist. Mettler's installation dramatizes and magnifies subtle relations between cosmology, geological time and mobilization of capital on the planet. The installation will also be accompanied by a collaboration between Mettler and I that will gradually develop throughout the course of the exhibition:I was prompted by yesterday's news of the passing of RAW to scan the pieces he wrote for his 1999 column on GettingIt.com , the progenitor of this webzine. It was a casual act, under the assumption that they would be somewhat dated. But as I reread the articles, it became clear that admirers who are unaware of them might in fact find them enjoyable. [T]here may be more here, just as there is to horror and catastrophe movies if you think about them. Neo-Freudians, and especially Reichians, suggest that our form of civilization stifles and constricts us so much that at times we all long to experience some orgasmic but catastrophic "explosion," like King Kong breaking his chains and wrecking New York, or even more like the masochist in bondage, according to Dr.
A Selection of Obscure Robert Anton Wilson Essays - 10 Zen Monk
By David Pescovitz at 2:30 pm Thursday, Aug 27 Here is Alan Moore's tribute to bOING bOING patron saint Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007), delivered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in March 2007. (Thanks, Chris Arkenberg !) Share this post Where not otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States and other countries.
Alan Moore on Robert Anton Wilson
The Vigilant Citizen
‘Contagion’ or How Disaster Movies “Educate” the Masses Hollywood movies are usually presented as a form of entertainment, but their plots often conceal a specific agenda. “Disaster movies”, films about the end of the world through various mass crises, are particularly interesting as they all follow the same basic formula and glorify the same entities. In this article, [...] “Labyrinth” Starring David Bowie: A Blueprint to Mind Control The 1986 movie Labyrinth, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly, immerses the viewers into a world of fantasy and wonder.I've started to outline some ideas for taking research and rantings from this blog and putting them into a more accessible book format. Well, a little less accessible as you have to buy or borrow it, but most people would be more receptive to my bizarre rantings were it to be packaged in book format, I think. The idea is to cover the symbolism, mythology, and especially movie synchronicities which tie it all together. So, in the mean-time, I'll be removing old material from my blog that no longer reflects the aim of The Stygian Port.
The Stygian Port
Urbanomic
William Bennett, who previously worked with Urbanomic on The Real Thing at Tate Britain, has very generously donated a very desirable lot of signed CD and vinyl from his new Cut Hands project to Urbanomic. Proceeds of the auction will go to support Collapse . Ebay link here Freie Universität Berlin is hosting a series of Speculative Philosophy events over the next month, featuring all the original four 'Speculative Realists' (Robin Mackay will be responding to Meillassoux's presentation on 20 April): More Information . And François Laruelle will be expanding upon his Concept of Non-Photography in a talk at Goldsmiths University of London on 10th May, also with Robin responding. The talk is entitled Photo-fiction: An Exercise in Non-Standard Aesthetics .The Hermetic Library at Hermetic.com
An unofficial archive of materials relating to the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.), the ecclesiastical arm of Ordo Templi Orientis, and the Gnostic Mass A collective effort to see the entire corpus of materials deriving from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a fraternal, magical order of the 19th century through to the present day, available online The Equinox: The Review of Scientific Illuminism The complete texts of Volume I, issues 1 through 10, and Volume III, issue 1, of the official organ of the A∴ A∴, as well as information and links relating to other volumes and issues